# TextArea selects all contents when you scroll it

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-selects-all-contents-when-you-scroll-it/42026>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 4, 2004, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-selects-all-contents-when-you-scroll-it/42026 "2004-02-04T10:19:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![TylerNZ](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/tylernz/32/415_2.png) [@TylerNZ](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TylerNZ)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-selects-all-contents-when-you-scroll-it/42026/1 "2004-02-04T10:19:39Z")

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Has anyone experienced this happening? You’re using the TextArea component … and when you publish the file, you go to scroll your text … and when you release the handler, it selects all your text!!!

Very annoying … doesn’t anyone know WHY or HOW to fix this?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-selects-all-contents-when-you-scroll-it/42026/2 "2004-02-04T13:44:46Z")

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I just tested it, and doesn’t happen here. Can you place your swf online somewhere so I could see it happening ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-selects-all-contents-when-you-scroll-it/42026/3 "2004-02-04T15:39:21Z")

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Read some posts somewhere else about that, wait…

> **[Onderwerp: skinning van de scrollpane van TextArea in Flash(mx2004) » One More...](http://flashmx2004.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=435)**
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> Hallo allemaal, ik denk dat de titel al redelijk veel zegt. Ik zou graag de srollbar van het TextArea component skinnen. Deze past nu totaal niet bij mij site ontwerp. Iemand enig idee hoe ik dit doe? Alvast bedankt, Ad (een alternatieve manier is...